Anyone who knows anything about the game of basketball can look at Angel Reese and acknowledge that she is one hell of a player.
Not even two months into her rookie season with the Chicago Sky, the No. 7 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft already is putting up incredible numbers. She’s currently averaging 12.1 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, has achieved four double-doubles and became the first rookie this year to achieve 100 points and 100 rebounds.
All the while, she has shown incredible maturity and respect for herself, her teammates, her coach and her fellow competitors. The only thing one has to do is watch her play and come to the easy realization that she was destined for this due to her own mixture of fierceness, flair and flamboyance.
But if you know absolutely nothing about the game and/or have had long-standing hostilities towards the WNBA and women’s sports in general, then you see her as an epitomization of all that is supposedly wrong with sports and society at large. She is perceived as evil and a villain who has earned condemnation, whereas her contemporary Caitlin Clark is held up as the savior and a savant who needs protection.
